Media Advisory for Second Day, 15 March
Official Statements, Exhibition Hall 2, 10:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00
As per the Media Coverage Guidelines issued by the Secretariats of the United Nations and Japan,
there is unlimited access for print media, while one photographer and one videographer/camera per
company is allowed. Please come to the venue 15 minutes before the start.
Ministerial Roundtables, Room 1&2, 10:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00
No media access.
Working Sessions, Exhibition Hall 1, Main Hall and Hagi Hall, Various times
Open to all media.
TV Talk Show with private sector, Sakura Hall 2, 12:30-13:30
Limited to 180 participants. First come, first served.
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Press Conferences, Sakura Hall 2 & Shirakashi Hall 2
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 09:45-10:15, Sakura
Topic: Announcement of the IFRC’s ‘One Billion Coalition for Resilience’- a multi-stakeholder global
initiative that aims to build the resilience of one billion people by 2025
Speaker: Elhadj As Sy, IFRC Secretary General
Japanese Translation: To be confirmed
World Health Organization & UN Population Fund 11:00-11:30, Sakura
Topic: Global health implications of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction/Launch of
WHO’s Hospital Safety Index
Speakers: Bruce Aylward, Special Representative to the WHO Director General on Ebola and
Assistant Director General for Emergencies; Alex Ross, Director of WHO's Kobe Centre; Remi
Sogunro, UNFPA Officer-in-Charge in Liberia
Japanese Translation: Yes
Press Conferences (Continued)
UNISDR, 11:35-12:00, Shirakashi
Topic: Worldwide Initiative on Safe Schools
Speakers: Fuat Otkay, Disaster and Emergency Management Director-General, Turkey; Reynaldo
Laguda, Assistant Secretaty, Department of Education, The Philippines; Willem Rampangilei, Deputy,
Ministry of People’s Welfare, Indonesia
Japanese Translation: Yes
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 18:00-18:30
Topic: The Red Cross Red Crescent’s contribution to the HFA.
Speaker: IFRC and Japanese Red Cross President Tadateru Konoé
Japanese Translation: Yes
World Meteorological Organization, 15:30-16:00
Topic: Saving lives through enhanced early warning systems
Speakers: Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General; Loren Legarda, Senator, The Philippines; Thomas
Silberhorn, Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany; Xu Tang, WMO
Director, Weather and Disaster Services
Material related to the above press conferences is available in the WCDRR Conference Box:
wcdrrbag.info
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Video Footage & Photos
UN Webcast services offer live and on-demand coverage of the World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction on UN Web TV (http://webtv.un.org) in English, Japanese and the speaker’s original
language.
The Webcast coverage includes the Opening and Closing Ceremony, Official Statements, High-Level
Partnership Dialogue sessions, Ministerial Roundtable sessions and Press Conferences.
The direct link to the webcast archived videos is: http://webtv.un.org/meetingsevents/conferencessummits/3rd-un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-14-18-march2015-sendai-japan/
Rights-free photos and ceremony video footage are available to Media at the Conference Center
at ftp://ftp.wcdrr.conf/ (Username: admin; Password: wcdrr3rd!).
Photos should be credited to UNISDR, and videos to UN Web TV. Requests for copies of any other
video footage should be made in person at the UNISDR Office in the Media Center (Shirakashi Room
1).
A Japanese version of this advisory will be released later.